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What's worse: drunk driving...or drunk walking?

By Joan Lowy, The Associated Press

Posted:
08/05/2013 02:47:17 PM PDT

Updated:
08/05/2013 02:51:50 PM PDT

(Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

What's worse: drunk driving...or drunk walking?

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just as drinking and driving can be deadly, so can drinking and walking. Over a third of the pedestrians killed in 2011 had blood alcohol levels above the legal limit for driving, according to government data released Monday.Thirty-five percent of those killed, or 1,547 pedestrians, had blood alcohol content levels of .08 or higher, the legal limit for driving, according to data reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by state highway departments.Among the 625 pedestrians ...